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ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mindby Barry Sanders, Ivan IllichISBN 0865472912 (0-86547-291-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Adolescent Literacy Research and Practiceby Tamara L. Jetton, Janice A. DoleISBN 1593850212 (1-59385-021-2)
Softcover, Guilford Pubn
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adolescent Literacy Research and Practice'Book summary:This much-needed book addresses the role of literacy instruction in enhancing content area learning and fostering student motivation and success well beyond the primary grades. The unique literacy needs of middle school and secondary students are thoroughly examined and effective practices and interventions identified. Reviewing the breadth of current knowledge, leading authorities cover such important topics as:[via]
o How literacy skills develop in grades 5-12
o Ways to incorporate literacy learning into English, social studies, math, and science
o Struggling adolescent readers and writers: what works in assessment and intervention
o Special challenges facing English language learners and culturally diverse students
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Alphabet Versus The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word And Imageby Leonard ShlainISBN 0140196013 (0-14-019601-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alphabet Versus The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word And Image'Book summary:"Literacy has promoted the subjugation of women by men throughout all but the very recent history of the West," writes Leonard Shlain. "Misogyny and patriarchy rise and fall with the fortunes of the alphabetic written word."
That's a pretty audacious claim, one that The Alphabet Versus the Goddess provides extensive historical and cultural correlations to support. Shlain's thesis takes readers from the evolutionary steps that distinguish the human brain from that of the primates to the development of the Internet. The very act of learning written language, he argues, exercises the human brain's left hemisphere--the half that handles linear, abstract thought--and enforces its dominance over the right hemisphere, which thinks holistically and visually. If you accept the idea that linear abstraction is a masculine trait, and that holistic visualization is feminine, the rest of the theory falls into place. The flip side is that as visual orientation returns to prominence within society through film, television, and cyberspace, the status of women increases, soon to return to the equilibrium of the earliest human cultures. Shlain wisely presents this view of history as plausible rather than definite, but whether you agree with his wide-ranging speculations or not, he provides readers eager to "understand it all" with much to consider. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Better Than Lifeby Daniel Pennac, David HomelISBN 0889104840 (0-88910-484-0)
Hardcover, Coach House Press
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Better Than Lifeby David Homel, Daniel PennacISBN 1571103171 (1-57110-317-1)
Softcover, Stenhouse Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Better Than Life'Book summary:[via]Anyone who loves to read and wants our young people to develop a similar passion will savor Better than Life - an enchanting, beautifully written, and wise book.--Regie Routman
An essential guide to helping children discover the pleasures of reading!
In Better than Life, Daniel Pennac shares the secrets that all book lovers treasure. Delving into his experiences as a parent, a writer and a teacher, he asks, how does the love of reading begin? How is it lost? And how can it be regained? This remarkable book explores simple ways to create a life-long devotion to reading:
- how reading aloud can ensure that a love of books begins
- why it is important that children develop a private relationship with books
- what "The Reader's Bill of Rights" can do to guarantee children value reading
This book reads like a novel with gripping anecdotes from literature and fresh insights into creating and nurturing enthusiastic readers.
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Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manualby Patrick JonesISBN 1555701086 (1-55570-108-6)
Softcover, Neal Schuman Pub
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Connecting Young Adults And Libraries: A How-to-do-it Manual For Librariansby Patrick Jones, Michele Gorman, Tricia SuellentropISBN 1555705081 (1-55570-508-1)
Softcover, Neal Schuman Pub
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Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Knowby E.D. HirschISBN 1569562199 (1-56956-219-9)
Softcover, William a Thomas Braille
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know'Book summary:In this forceful manifesto, Hirsch argues that children in the U.S. are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. Includes 5,000 essential facts to know. [via]
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Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Knowby Joseph F. Kett, E.D. Hirsch, James S. TrefilISBN 0394758439 (0-394-75843-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Dictionary of Cultural Literacyby James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, E.D. HirschISBN 0395437482 (0-395-43748-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy'Book summary:"The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 2nd edition" is a compendium of the words, phrases, names, places, events and other items, familiar to most Americans, which combines our common knowledge as a 'collective memory' and informs our late 20th Century discourse; allows us to comprehend daily newspapers, magazines, news reports, to understand our peers, leaders and even jokes; and colors the sound of our national culture. This is not 'expert' knowledge but rather the shared 'common' knowledge which allows people to communicate, forms the basis of communities, and distinguishes our national culture as unique. [via]
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Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12by Cris TovaniISBN 1571103767 (1-57110-376-7)
Softcover, Stenhouse Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12'Book summary:[via]Do I really have to teach reading? This is the question many teachers of adolescents are asking, wondering how they can possibly add a new element to an already overloaded curriculum. And most are finding that the answer is yes. If they want their students to learn complex new concepts in different disciplines, they often have to help their students become better readers.
Building on the experiences gained in her own language arts classroom as well as those of colleagues in different disciplines, Cris Tovani, author of I Read It, but I Don't Get It, takes on the challenge of helping students apply reading comprehension strategies in any subject. In Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?, Cris shows how teachers can expand on their content expertise to provide instruction students need to understand specific technical and narrative texts. The book includes:
- examples of how teachers can model their reading process for students;
- ideas for supplementing and enhancing the use of required textbooks;
- detailed descriptions of specific strategies taught in context;
- stories from different high school classrooms to show how reading instruction varies according to content;
- samples of student work, including both struggling readers and college-bound seniors;
- a variety of comprehension constructors : guides designed to help students recognize and capture their thinking in writing while reading;
- guidance on assessing students;
- tips for balancing content and reading instruction.
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Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacyby Gesa E. Kirsch, Peter MortensenISBN 0814115969 (0-8141-1596-9)
Softcover, Natl Council of Teachers
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From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307by M.T. ClanchyISBN 0631168575 (0-631-16857-5)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Ageby Sven BirkertsISBN 0865479577 (0-86547-957-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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A History of Readingby Alberto ManguelISBN 0140166548 (0-14-016654-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Reading'Book summary:A history of reading presents tales of book thieves, book burners, censors, anarchists, women of eleventh century Japan who had to invent their own reading material, and African-American slaves who were forbidden to read under penalty of death. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. [via]
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How to Read a Bookby Mortimer Jerome Adler, Charles Lincoln Van DorenISBN 1567310109 (1-56731-010-9)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Read a Book'Book summary:How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated.
You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author's message, criticize. You are taught the different reading techniques for reading practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science.
Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests whereby you can measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension and speed. [via]
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I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readersby Cris Tovani, Ellin Oliver KeeneISBN 157110089X (1-57110-089-X)
Softcover, Stenhouse Pub
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Illiterate Americaby Jonathan KozolISBN 0452258073 (0-452-25807-3)
Softcover, New American Library
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A Is for Ox: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Ageby Barry SandersISBN 0679742859 (0-679-74285-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Is for Ox : Violence, Electronic Media, and the Silencing of the Written Wordby Barry SandersISBN 0679417117 (0-679-41711-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Laubach Way to Reading: Skill Book 1 Sounds and Names of Lettersby Frank C. LaubachISBN 088336901X (0-88336-901-X)
Softcover, New Readers Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Laubach Way to Reading: Skill Book 1 Sounds and Names of Letters'Book summary:Skill book 1 : sounds and names of letters teaches the name and one sound for each letter in the alhabet plus the writing of smalll and capital letters and numerals. It also lays an essential foundation in word attack and comprehension skills which will be mastered in subsequent skill books. Vocabulary is controlled; 132 words, including variants, are introduced and used in context. The correlated reader, In the valley, introduces additional words. Sentence structures are limited to common patterns like subject-verb-object. [via]
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Laubach Way to Reading Teachers Manual for Skill Book 1by Frank C. Laubach, Elizabeth MooneyISBN 0883369117 (0-88336-911-7)
Softcover, New Readers Pr
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Laubach Way to Reading: Tutor Workshop HandbookISBN 0883366940 (0-88336-694-0)
Softcover, New Readers Pr
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Literacy in the New Media Ageby Gunther KressISBN 041525356X (0-415-25356-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Literacy: A Critical Sourcebookby Ellen Cushman, Mike Rose, Barry M. Kroll, Gene R. KintgenISBN 0312250428 (0-312-25042-8)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook'Book summary:This new collection of both landmark and current essays provides a comprehensive overview of the major themes and questions that shape literacy studies today. Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook is an indispensable reference tool for anyone interested in the field of literacy studies and ideally suited for use in a wide range of upper-division and graduate classes.[via]More editions of Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook:
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Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greeceby Rosalind ThomasISBN 0521377420 (0-521-37742-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece'Book summary:This book explores the role of written and oral communication in Greece and is the first systematic and sustained treatment at this level. It examines the recent theoretical debates about literacy and orality and explores the uses of writing and oral communication, and their interaction, in ancient Greece. It sets the significance of written and oral communication as much as possible in their social and historical context, and stresses the specifically Greek characteristics in their use. It draws together the results of recent studies and suggests further avenues of inquiry. All ancient evidence is translated. [via]
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Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning After Brown V. Board of Educationby Catherine PrendergastISBN 080932525X (0-8093-2525-X)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Literacy in American Livesby Deborah BrandtISBN 0521003067 (0-521-00306-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literacy in American Lives'Book summary:Literacy in American Lives traces the changing conditions of literacy learning over the past century as they were felt in the lives of ordinary Americans born between 1895 and 1985. The book demonstrates what sharply rising standards for literacy have meant to successive generations of Americans and how--as students, workers, parents, and citizens--they have responded to rapid changes in the meaning and methods of literacy learning in their society. Drawing on more than 80 life histories of Americans from all walks of life, the book addresses critical questions facing public education at the start of the twenty-first century. [via]
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Literacy With an Attitude: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interestby Patrick J. FinnISBN 0791442861 (0-7914-4286-1)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literacy With an Attitude: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest'Book summary:This book is for teachers, parents, and community organizers who are on the side of working-class children. It's about the resistance of working class children to the kind of education they typically receive, education designed to make them useful workers and obedient citizens. It's about working-class habits of communication and ways of using language that interfere with schooling. It's about a new brand of teachers, followers of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire who are developing effective methods for teaching powerful literacy in American working-class classrooms. It's about teacher networks where teachers devoted to equity and justice find mutual support. And it's about community organizers who are bringing working-class parents together around education issues and helping them mount effective demands for powerful literacy for their children. [via]
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Lives on the Boundaryby Mike RoseISBN 0143035460 (0-14-303546-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives on the Boundary'Book summary:[via]Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficientthese are the stigmas that define Americas educationally underprepared. Having grown up poor and been labeled this way, nationally acclaimed educator and author Mike Rose takes us into classrooms and communities to reveal what really lies behind the labels and test scores. With rich detail, Rose demonstrates innovative methods to initiate problem students into the world of language, literature, and written expression. This book challenges educators, policymakers, and parents to re-examine their assumptions about the capacities of a wide range of students.
Already a classic, Lives on the Boundary offers a truly democratic vision, one that should be heeded by anyone concerned with Americas future.
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Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educational Underclassby Mike RoseISBN 0140124039 (0-14-012403-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America's Underpreparedby Mike RoseISBN 0029268214 (0-02-926821-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives on the Boundary : The Struggles and Achievements of America's Underprepared'Book summary:Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient--these are the stigmas that define the educational underclass to which Mike Rose once belonged. Here, he tells of his personal journey from a Los Angeles ghetto to a major research university, bringing a vital challenge to those who must shape America's educational agenda. [via]
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Making the Match: The Right Book for the Right Reader at the Right Time Grades 4-12by Teri S. LesesneISBN 1571103813 (1-57110-381-3)
Softcover, Stenhouse Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making the Match: The Right Book for the Right Reader at the Right Time Grades 4-12'Book summary:[via]What do adolescents care about? Chatting on-line with friends, movies, their favorite bands . . . but many are also avid readers. What motivates some of these "typical teens" to become lifelong readers and others to slide by with the minimum amount of assigned reading? Teri Lesesne says the key is finding the books that get them hooked in the first place.
In Making the Match she focuses on three distinct areas that will assist teachers and librarians in steering students to the literature they love:
- Knowing the readers: discussion of important theories in the development of adolescents (mentally, physically, morally, socially) and how that information helps educators to reach these kids with books. This background information is brought home through the book's snapshots which profile many of the adolescents the author has worked with.
- Knowing the books: examination of the various forms, formats, and genres that YA literature has to offer, as well as what special challenges educators face when selecting quality nonfiction or realistic fiction, and the role picture books can play in this process.
- Knowing the strategies: an overview of concrete ideas for motivating students to read as well as follow-up activities for post-reading assessment. Strategies discussed include reading aloud, booktalking, alternatives to traditional book reports, and literature circles.
A delightful feature of the book that will help inspire teachers and students alikeas well as underscore the concepts contained in the textis a series of vignettes by popular, award-winning YA authors that offer glimpses into their own feelings and memories of books and reading. Authors include: Sharon Creech, Jack Gantos, Chris Crutcher, Mel Glenn, Paul Janeczko, and others.
The book concludes with an invaluable set of appendices providing an FAQ on YA literature, bibliographies of professional materials, books by the vignette authors, and over twenty booklists with hundreds of books organized by genre or topic, all with suggested grade levels.
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Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives As a Rhetoric of Citizenshipby Morris YoungISBN 0809325543 (0-8093-2554-3)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futuresby Bill Cope, New London Group, Mary KalantzisISBN 0415214211 (0-415-21421-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futuresby New London Group, Bill Cope, Mary KalantzisISBN 0415214203 (0-415-21420-3)
Hardcover, Routledge
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The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Presentby Eric A. HavelockISBN 0300043821 (0-300-04382-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The New Read-Aloud Handbookby Jim TreleaseISBN 0140468811 (0-14-046881-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8by Stephanie HarveyISBN 1571100725 (1-57110-072-5)
Softcover, Stenhouse Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8'Book summary:[via]When we open the gates to nonfiction inquiry, we open our thinking and expect the unexpected, making reading discoveries, research discoveries, and writing discoveries on our way. Nonfiction Matters offers teachers the tools to help students explore nonfiction and dig deep to reach more complete understanding of the real world and report these insights in a compelling manner.
Stephanie Harvey shows how students can read expository text, engage in research, and write authentic nonfiction that is captivating, visual, and full of voice. The inquiry projects she describes require in-depth learning: topic selection, question development, research exploration, reading for content, organization, synthesis, writing to convey meaning, and presenting findingsall skills that develop independent thinkers who know how to make decisions, solve problems, and apply their knowledge insightfully.
Full of practical suggestions to help you bring nonfiction into your curriculum, Nonfiction Matters:
- presents strategies for understanding expository text and conducting meaningful research;
- offers ideas for organizing and writing accurate, effective nonfiction from idea to finished presentation;
- advances the importance of teacher modeling and guided practice in instructional delivery;
- provides a list of inquiry tools and resourcesboth print and electronic;
- suggests ways to facilitate project-based learning and assess the projects as they develop;
- includes bibliographies of nonfiction children's books by subject and genre and lists of recommended magazines.
Why is nonfiction almost a guaranteed success? The key to teaching with nonfiction is passion, for children are passionate inquirers, and nonfiction fuels their curiosity and their demand for knowledge and understanding of the world.
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On Being Literateby Margaret MeekISBN 0435087266 (0-435-08726-6)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Wordby Walter J. OngISBN 0415281296 (0-415-28129-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word'Book summary:This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology. In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral genres across the globe and through time, and examines the rise of abstract philosophical and scientific thinking. He considers the impact of orality-literacy studies not only on literary criticism and theory but on our very understanding of what it is to be a human being, conscious of self and other. This is a book no reader, writer or speaker should be without. [via]
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Softcover, Methuen - Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word: ISBN 041671370X (0-416-71370-X)
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Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroomby Lisa DelpitISBN 1595580743 (1-59558-074-3)
Softcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom'Book summary:By the year 2000, nearly 40 percent of the children in America's classrooms will be African American, Hispanic, Asian American, or Native American, yet most of those children's teachers will be white. In a radical and piercing analysis of what is going on in American classrooms today, MacArthur Award-winning author Lisa Delpit suggests that many of the academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication as schools and "other people's children" struggle with the imbalance of power and the dynamics of inequality plaguing our system. Winner of Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Book Award, the American Education Studies Association Critics' Choice Award, and one of Teacher Magazine's Great Books of 1995. Delpit is also a contributor to Racism Explained to My Daughter (New Press: June 1999). [via]
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Pedagogy of the Oppressedby Paulo Freire, Myra Bergman RamosISBN 0826412769 (0-8264-1276-9)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'Book summary:Mild underlining, highlighting, brackets. Minimal shelfwear. [via]
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The Power of Reading: Insights from the Researchby Stephen KrashenISBN 1591581699 (1-59158-169-9)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research'Book summary:Continuing the case for free voluntary reading set out in the book's 1993 first edition, this new, updated, and much-looked-for second edition explores new research done on the topic in the last ten years as well as looking anew at some of the original research reviewed. Krashen also explores research surrounding the role of school and public libraries and the research indicating the necessity of a print-rich environment that provides light reading (comics, teen romances, magazines) as well as the best in literature to assist in educating children to read with understanding and in second language acquisition. He looks at the research surrounding reading incentive/rewards programs and specifically at the research on AR (Accelerated Reader) and other electronic reading products.
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The Read-Aloud Handbookby Jim TreleaseISBN 0143037390 (0-14-303739-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Read-Aloud Handbook'Book summary:A new edition of the acclaimed literacy handbook explains the importance of reading aloud to children while offering guidance on how to set up a read-aloud atmosphere in the home or classroom and presenting more than 1,200 children's titles that are ideal for reading aloud. Tour. [via]
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Softcover, Penguin Books - The Read-Aloud Handbook: ISBN 0140467270 (0-14-046727-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books - The Read-Aloud Handbook: ISBN 0140469710 (0-14-046971-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Read-Aloud Handbook: ISBN 0141001615 (0-14-100161-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Read-Aloud Handbook: ISBN 0606213961 (0-606-21396-1)
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Reading Don't Fix No Chevys: Literacy in the Lives of Young Menby Michael W. Smith, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Tom NewkirkISBN 0867095091 (0-86709-509-1)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Reading Lessons: The Debate over Literacyby Gerald ColesISBN 0809080389 (0-8090-8038-9)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Lessons: The Debate over Literacy'Book summary:A provocative analysis of a hotly disputed, often politicized topic.How children are taught to read and how well they learn are perennially difficult issues in the United States. In this hard-hitting study, Gerald Coles argues that the very terms of today's arguments about learning are flawed. He urges Americans to worry about the best ways to teach reading-not a single "best way"-and about how politics, economics, and power in our unequal society affect our children's ability to read.[via]More editions of Reading Lessons: The Debate over Literacy:
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Reading Matters: What the Research Reveals About Reading, Libraries, and Communityby Catherine L. Ross, Paulette M. Rothbauer, Lynne E. F. McKechnieISBN 1591580668 (1-59158-066-8)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Matters: What the Research Reveals About Reading, Libraries, and Community'Book summary:Drawing upon data published in a variety of scholarly journals, monographs in education, cultural studies, media studies, and libraries and information studies, as well as their own research findings, these authors shatter some of the popular myths about reading and offer a cogent case for the library's vital role in the life of a reader. By providing a road map to research findings on reading, reader-response, audiences, genres, the value of popular culture, the social nature of reading, and the role of libraries in promoting literacy and reading, this guide offers a clear rationale for making pleasure reading a priority in the library and in schools.
The authors assert that reading for pleasure is as vital as ever; and that it is, and should be, woven into the majority of activities librarians consider fundamental: reference, collection building, provision of leisure materials, readers' advisory services, storytelling programs, adult literacy programs, and the like. Reading MatterS≪/i> covers myths about reading, the boy problem, reading and identity, how readers select books, and reading as a social activity. An essential resource for library administrators and personnel, the book will help them convey a message about the importance of reading to grant-funding agencies and others. It contains powerful proof that can be used to justify the establishment, maintenance, and growth of fiction (and other pleasure reading) collections, and of readers' advisory services. It is also of interest to LIS faculty who wish to establish/maintain courses in readers' advisory, and can be used as supplemental reading in these classes. Finally, it is a great model and aide for additional research on this topic.
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Reads like a Novelby Daniel PennacISBN 0704370735 (0-7043-7073-5)
Softcover, Quartet Books
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Real Boys' Voicesby William S. Pollack, Todd ShusterISBN 0141002948 (0-14-100294-8)
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Redefining Literacy for the 21st Centuryby David WarlickISBN 1586831305 (1-58683-130-5)
Softcover, Linworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century'Book summary:* Prepares students for a technologically defined 21st century!; *Practical, yet visionary; *Focused on literacy within the context of technology; and *Demystifies the future of literacy and "makes it simple" for educators and students alike.
Create students of the future and leaders for tomorrows information highway! Walk away with a new definition of literacy for the Information Age that you can pass on to learners of all ages. Find suggestions and resources for discovering your own path to promoting literacy in the 21st century. "Action Items," inside, suggest specific activities for all educators to undertake right away. A corresponding Web site that serves as a meeting place and discussion forum for collaboration and connectivity is also available to readers, where digital versions of charts, handouts and resources are at your fingertips. Appendices: Other suggested works, Where to look to find the future. Works Cited. [via]
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The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Pressby Lynne PearceISBN 0415281822 (0-415-28182-2)
Hardcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press'Book summary:Is it possible that changes in rhetorical practice could alter not just how thought is expressed, but also how it is made? Through a close stylistic and rhetorical analysis of contemporary feminist writing - from the cultural theory of Judith Butler to the popular journalism of Naomi Wolf and Germaine Greer - Lynne Pearce demonstrates how feminist thought is created as well as communicated through the frameworks in which it is presented. By linking rhetorical innovation with feminist epistemology in such a direct way, this is a book that will be of immense methodological as well as theoretical interest to readers, providing valuable insight into the often mysterious processes of conception and composition. [via]
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Shaping Literate Minds: Developing Self-Regulated Learnersby Linda J. Dorn, Carla SoffosISBN 1571103384 (1-57110-338-4)
Softcover, Stenhouse Pub
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Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Lifeby Frederic Brussat, Mary Ann BrussatISBN 0684835347 (0-684-83534-7)
Softcover, Scribner
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Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understandingby Stephanie Harvey, Anne GoudvisISBN 1571103104 (1-57110-310-4)
Softcover, Stenhouse Pub
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Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African-American Womenby Jacqueline Jones RoysterISBN 0822957256 (0-8229-5725-6)
Softcover, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
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Tutor: A Collaborative Approach To Literacy Instructionby Ruth J. Colvin, Lester L. Laminack, CheathamISBN 0930713818 (0-930713-81-8)
Softcover, Literacy Volunteers of Amer
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Unconditional Surrender: The Capture of Forts Henry and Donelsonby Spencer TuckerISBN 1893114112 (1-893114-11-2)
Hardcover, Texas A & M Univ Pr
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The Uses of Literacyby Richard HoggartISBN 0765804212 (0-7658-0421-2)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Uses of Literacy'Book summary:This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in response to mass media. First published in 1957, it mapped out a new methodology in cultural studies based around interdisciplinarity and a concern with how texts-in this case, mass publications-are stitched into the patterns of lived experience. Mixing personal memoir with social history and cultural critique, The Uses of Literacy anticipates recent interest in modes of cultural analysis that refuse to hide the author behind the mask of objective social scientific technique. In its method and in its rich accumulation of the detail of working-class life, this volume remains useful and absorbing.
Hoggart's analysis achieves much of its power through a careful delineation of the complexities of working-class attitudes and its sensitivity to the physical and environmental facts of working-class life. The people he portrays are neither the sentimentalized victims of a culture of deference nor neo-fascist hooligans. Hoggart sees beyond habits to what habits stand for and sees through statements to what the statements really mean. He thus detects the differing pressures of emotion behind idiomatic phrases and ritualistic observances.
Through close observation and an emotional empathy deriving, in part, from his own working-class background, Hoggart defines a fairly homogeneous and representative group of working-class people. Against this background may be seen how the various appeals of mass publications and other artifacts of popular culture connect with traditional and commonly accepted attitudes, how they are altering those attitudes, and how they are meeting resistance. Hoggart argues that the appeals made by mass publicists-more insistent, effective, and pervasive than in the past-are moving toward the creation of an undifferentiated mass culture and that the remnants of an authentic urban culture are being destroyed.
In his introduction to this new edition, Andrew Goodwin, professor of broadcast communications arts at San Francisco State University, defines Hoggart's place among contending schools of English cultural criticism and points out the prescience of his analysis for developments in England over the past thirty years. He notes as well the fruitful links to be made between Hoggart's method and findings and aspects of popular culture in the United States.
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Ways With Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classroomsby Shirley Brice HeathISBN 0521273196 (0-521-27319-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ways With Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms'Book summary:Ways with Words is a classic study of children learning to use language at home and at school in two communities only a few miles apart in the south-eastern United States. 'Roadville' is a white working-class community of families steeped for generations in the life of textile mills; 'Trackton' is an African-American working-class community whose older generations grew up farming the land, but whose existent members work in the mills. In tracing the children's language development the author shows the deep cultural differences between the two communities, whose ways with words differ as strikingly from each other as either does from the pattern of the townspeople, the 'mainstream' blacks and whites who hold power in the schools and workplaces of the region. Employing the combined skills of ethnographer, social historian, and teacher, the author raises fundamental questions about the nature of language development, the effects of literacy on oral language habits, and the sources of communication problems in schools and workplaces. [via]
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What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacyby James Paul GeeISBN 1403965382 (1-4039-6538-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy'Book summary:A controversial look at the positive things that can be learned from video games by a well known professor of education.[via]
James Paul Gee begins his new book with "I want to talk about vide games--yes, even violent video games--and say some positive things about them." With this simple but explosive beginning, one of America's most well-respected professors of education looks seriously at the good that can come from playing video games. Gee is interested in the cognitive development that can occur when someone is trying to escape a maze, find a hidden treasure and, even, blasting away an enemy with a high-powered rifle. Talking about his own video-gaming experience learning and using games as diverse as Lara Croft and Arcanum, Gee looks at major specific cognitive activities:
* How individuals develop a sense of identity
* How one grasps meaning
* How one evaluates and follow a command
* How one picks a role model
* How one perceives the world
This is a ground-breaking book that takes up a new electronic method of education and shows the positive upside it has for learning.More editions of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy:
When Kids Can't Read, What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers, 6-12by G. Kylene BeersISBN 0867095199 (0-86709-519-9)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12by Janet AllenISBN 1571100857 (1-57110-085-7)
Softcover, Stenhouse Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12'Book summary:[via]Do you spend hours creating word lists and weekly vocabulary tests only to find that your students have "forgotten" the words by the following week? Janet Allen and her students were frustrated with the same problem. Words, Words, Words describes the research that changed the way she and many other teachers teach vocabulary. It offers educators practical, research-based solutions for helping students fall into new language, learn new words, and begin to use those words in their speaking and writing lives.
This book offers teachers detailed strategy lessons in the following areas:
- activating and building background word knowledge;
- making word learning meaningful and lasting;
- building concept knowledge;
- using word and structural analysis to create meaning;
- using context as a text support;
- making reading the heart of vocabulary instruction.
Words, Words, Words provides educators with a strong research base, detailed classroom-based lessons, and graphic organizers to support the strategy lessons. At a time when teachers are struggling to meet content standards in reading across the curriculum, this book offers some practical solutions for meeting those standards in ways that are meaningful and lasting.
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You Gotta Be the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading With Adolescentsby Jeffrey D. WilhelmISBN 0807735671 (0-8077-3567-1)
Hardcover, Teachers College Pr
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Comme Un Romanby Daniel PennacISBN 2070725804 (2-07-072580-4)
Hardcover, Gallimard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Comme Un Roman'Book summary:Un prof peut-il conseiller à ses élèves de sauter les pages d'un livre, de ne pas finir un roman et même de ne pas lire ? Oui, si c'est le seul moyen pour les faire entrer dans le monde magique des livres. C'est en tout cas le parti pris de Daniel Pennac : auteur à succès depuis Au bonheur des ogres jusqu'à Monsieur Malaussène, il est aussi professeur de français, et il a bien compris qu'il ne sert à rien de vouloir forcer les élèves : si on leur donne le droit de sauter les premières pages de description du Père Goriot de Balzac, on leur laisse une chance de se laisser envoûter par Rastignac. Et c'est l'essentiel, car se priver de Balzac, et de tous les autres, c'est passer à côté d'un grand bonheur. Et d'une grande liberté.
Redonner aux lecteurs un accès aux textes ; rendre aux textes leur pouvoir de fascination, de subversion, de magie : tel est le credo de ce traité de lecture, qui est en fait un véritable traité d'humanisme. Et qui se lit, bien sûr, "comme un roman"... --Karla Manuele [via]
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Como Una Novelaby D. PennacISBN 8433913670 (84-339-1367-0)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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